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How does this differ from exiftool.js ?
Original:
https://github.com/mattburns/exiftool.js
A node.js specific Fork, adding more Makernotes (and even more planned):
https://github.com/redaktor/exiftool.js
btw: Both repos have a Coverage Report comparing to the Perl reference implementation.
Can we work together here somehow?

[nathanpeck]

exiftool.js is pretty great, but my understanding is that to date it is not quite as complete as the original.

This package is basically just a wrapper around the exiftool binary simplifying the use of it within node.js code.

I'm definitely not opposed to using exiftool.js, but I created this quite a while ago when exiftool.js was even less complete than it is today, and I needed a very complete exif reading solution for a prod application.

[crussell42]

I just added a exiftool-node-stayopen version if interested.
https://github.com/crussell42/exiftool-node-stayopen
It spawns exiftool in -stay_open mode and so can be used for much faster access over time.
I too looked at exiftool.js and needed the more complete capabilities of the perl program.

[cdbattags]

Is this repo not on npm?